Butterfly Baby Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays427

Butterfly Baby by Bobby Rydell is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, Bm, G, Gm7, Em7, Ab, E, Am, Dbm and Gbm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
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in 1963. 

Intro: A D Bm G 

#1. 
A         D             Bm    D    Gm7         G 
Butterfly baby, lookin' aroooound, flyin' like crazy,  
Em7      A 
all over town. 
A                        D                Bm 
Oh, you little butterfly baby, I'll hang around, 
G      D    G            A              G      A 
hopin' that maybe, mmmm, someday you'll settle down. 

 
G           Bm               Em7  D 
When you're done and there's only one, who will your  

honey be? 
G       Bm              Em7       A      Ab        A 
Hear my plea, won't you let it be me? It better be me. 

#2. 
A         D      A    D        Bm 
Butterfly baby, 'bout time you knew. 
G                      E Em7       A 
I love you like crazy, I love only you. 
A              Bm        D                   Bm 
Oh, you little butterfly baby, when will you see? 
          G     D    Bm  A            G        A 
Butterfly baby, mmmmmmm, you've gotta fly with me. 


INTERLUDE: A D Bm G D G Em7 Bm A G A 


G           Bm               Em7  D 
When you're done and there's only one, who will your  

honey be? 
G       Bm              Em7        A      Ab        A 
Hear my plea, won't you let it be, me? It better be me. 

#3. 
A         D     Bm   D       Bm    G      D     G 
Butterfly baby, when you are free, you'll be my baby, yeah,  
          A 
exclusive-ly. 
A                        D                   Bm   G     D 
Oh, you little butterfly baby, then you will see, butterfly  
G            A           G        Am  A 
baby, mmmmm, you'll only fly with me.... 


OUTRO: 
Dbm     D                  Bm                     G 
Whoa-oh-ohhhh..whoaaa-ohhh-ohhhh-ohhh..whoa-oh-oh-oh.. 
             A      Gbm           D               Bm 
whoa-ahhh-oh-ohh....wah-ohhhh-ah-ohhh..wahhh-ahhh-ohhh.. 
          G                  A 
whoa-ohhh-ohhh..whoaaaa-ahhh-ohhh..(Fade.) 


 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante